SCOURGE Copy link • SCOURGE 1. s. PROP., flagrum, flagellum (the proper words; consisting of single thongs): scorpio (armed with prickles; Vid: Isidorus, Orig., 5, 27). ☞ The severest punishment was the flagellum, s., ; next was the milder scutica, or the lora, -orum, neuter, whip of thongs; and after this the ferula; i. e., rod of the plant νάρθηξ; Vid: Hor., Sat. 1, 3, 119, sq. Figuratively, pestis: pernicies: verba (plur.): to hold the scourage of criticism over anybody, *acerbe or severe reprehendere aliquem. A scourage of God, *immissus a Deo, ut saeviret in omne flagitium voluptatibus liquefacti generis humani. The scourage of a country, reipublicae or patriae pestis 2. v. To beat with rods, etc., flagris or flagellis caedere; flagellare (post-Augustan); virgis verberare, caedere, mulctare (Liv.); verberibus accipere or excipere (Cic.). T o punish, Vid.